Re: [Unicode Announcement] New Public Review Issue #147: Proposed Deprecation of U+0673 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH WAVY HAMZA BELOW

Removed ietf <at> ietf.org

I did not find any occurrences in a large sample of IDNs on the Web.

Erik

2009/6/1 Mark Davis <mark <at> macchiato.com>:
> Looking at character frequencies in web documents, the frequency of U+0673
> cannot be separated from noise. Haven't yet looked at URLs.
>
> Mark
>
>
> 2009/6/1 Shawn Steele <Shawn.Steele <at> microsoft.com>
>>
>> I'm curious how this impacts IDNA2003 compatibility and particularly the
>> proposed IDNA2008 mappings.  I suppose it is unlikely that this character is
>> currently registered in a "real" URL?
>>
>> -Shawn
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: idna-update-bounces <at> alvestrand.no
>> [mailto:idna-update-bounces <at> alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Patrik Fältström
>> Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 1:56 AM
>> To: IETF Discussion; IDNA update work
>> Subject: Fwd: [Unicode Announcement] New Public Review Issue #147:
>> Proposed Deprecation of U+0673 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH WAVY HAMZA BELOW
>>
>> As the liaison from IETF to the Unicode Consortium, I would like to make
>> the IETF community aware of the following opening for public comments.
>>
>> The character U+0673 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH WAVY HAMZA BELOW that the
>> review is related to has today the derived property value "PVALID" in the
>> current proposal discussed in the IDNABIS working group.
>>
>> Because of this, I encourage interested parties to respond to the
>> questions stated below.
>>
>> I am confident IETF and Unicode Consortium will be able to synchronize the
>> two standards so that there is no incompatibility issues.
>>
>>     Patrik Fältström
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>> > From: announcements <at> unicode.org
>> > Date: fr 29 maj 2009 00.25.49 GMT+02:00
>> > To: announcements <at> unicode.org
>> > Subject: [Unicode Announcement] New Public Review Issue #147:
>> > Proposed Deprecation of U+0673 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH WAVY HAMZA
>> > BELOW
>> > Reply-To: root <at> unicode.org
>> >
>> > The Unicode Technical Committee has posted a new issue for public
>> > review and comment. Details are on the following web page:
>> >
>> >    http://www.unicode.org/review/
>> >
>> > Review periods for the new item closes on August 3, 2009.
>> >
>> > Please see the page for links to discussion and relevant documents.
>> > Briefly, the new issue is:
>> >
>> >
>> > PRI #147: Proposed Deprecation of U+0673 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH WAVY
>> > HAMZA BELOW
>> >
>> > The UTC has recently approved a proposal to encode an ARABIC WAVY
>> > HAMZA BELOW for a future version of the Unicode Standard. That
>> > character is used productively in Kashmiri and other languages, and is
>> > applied to letters other than ALEF. The intent is to deprecate the
>> > existing character U+0673 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH WAVY HAMZA BELOW, in
>> > favor of the sequence of an ALEF plus the new ARABIC WAVY HAMZA BELOW.
>> > (Because of normalization stability constraints, a canonical
>> > equivalence relation cannot be established.)
>> >
>> > The UTC is seeking feedback on whether U+0673 should be deprecated
>> > when ARABIC WAVY HAMZA BELOW is encoded. Pertinent information would
>> > include data on how widespread usage of this character is. Note that
>> > deprecation of a character does not mean removal of that character
>> > from the standard; it merely constitutes a strong recommendation not
>> > to use the character.
>> >
>> >
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>> >
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